1 For encouragement and access to archives, I extend my deepest thanks to Doris Atkinson. Georgette Dorn of the Hispanic Reading Room and the staff of the Manuscript Reading Room of the U.S. Library of Congress let me consult, in opportune moments, the microfilms on which much of this work is based. Deep thanks likewise to Nivea Palma of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, and Pedro Pablo Zegers, Tomás Harris, and the staff of the Archivo del Escritor of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, where the originals of the Dana Atkinson archives now reside. Luis Vargas Saavedra has been a patient and generous interlocutor, whose work on Gabriela Mistral in Spain pointed the way. Cassandra Swick helped with final revisions. I am grateful to the English Department Personnel Committee and English Department Chair Neal Lester at Arizona State University granted the senior leave from teaching in Spring 2009 that let me revise an earlier draft of this research, which editors of Anales de Literatura Chilena published in a Spanish-language version, translated by Eduardo Muslip: see Elizabeth Horan, "Una Mixtura de Calvario y Arcadia", en Anales de Literatura Chilena 10:11, Santiago, junio de 2009, 13-43. [ Links ]